Did the passengers in Avadh Assam Express really stand for 24 hours, unable to drink water or even go to the washroom? Viral video exposes the scary and overcrowded truth of the train – passengers’ safety in danger!
Lucknow. Recently a video has gone viral on social media, which completely exposed the real situation of Indian Railways. The video shows how passengers are facing immense inconvenience in a coach of Avadh Assam Express. A passenger, who was coming from Rajasthan, said he was stuck in the overcrowded train for the last 24 hours. He neither got space to move nor a chance to use the washroom.
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Did the passengers really stand there for 24 hours and not even drink water?
“I am afraid to drink water,” the passenger says in the video. He told that due to such crowd and suffocation he could not even urinate. When the reporter said that the government claimed that passengers were traveling comfortably, his reply was, “That is the comfort.” It is clearly visible in the video that many passengers are standing in the train and their discomfort is clearly visible.
Netizens’ sharp reaction to viral video
The viral video has garnered over 30.7K views on X within just a few hours. Netizens called it a “violation of basic human rights” and said “12,000 ‘special’ trains, 0 respect for passengers.” Many people said that they felt claustrophobic after seeing so much crowd in the train. One user wrote, “Hasn’t moved from his place for 24 hours… What should we call this? Seat arrest or something!”
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Avadh Assam Express information
Avadh Assam Express (15909/15910) is run by Northeast Frontier Railway. This train runs from Bikaner Lalgarh Junction in Rajasthan to Dibrugarh in Assam and always proves to be challenging for the passengers due to its long route and delays.
Is this a “systemic issue” of Indian Railways?
Experts say that this video highlights the serious problem of overcrowding and passenger inconvenience in the railways. Passengers say that the train was so crowded that they could not move safely even to drink water or go to the washroom. After going viral on social media, many people are questioning the railway administration whether this is still a “systemic issue” or it needs to be rectified.